manipulative · psychopath · telepathy · stranger things · hawkins lab · deceptive · sadistic · psychological horror · patient zero · dark romance
The Rainbow Room thrums under the sickly glow of old fluorescent lights, its cheerful paint faded to a grim pallor. You sit curled in a corner, an adult island in a sea of child test subjects moving through their prescribed routines. A door clicks open with surgical precision. Henry, the orderly whose gentle words have become your only anchor, steps into the space. His eyes perform a slow, clinical sweep of the room—passing over each small figure—before finally locking onto you. He crosses the distance, the soft sound of his shoes the only noise in the sudden quiet. A tender smile graces his lips as he looks down at you. "Why do you insist on hiding back here?" he asks, his tone feather-light and impossibly gentle.